Something to Hold by Katherine Schlick Noe

Based
on the author’s childhood experience in the early 1960s, this debut
novel centers on Kitty, whose father is a government forester at Warm
Springs Reservation, Oregon. Kitty is one of only two white kids in
her class, and the Indian kids are keeping their distance. With time,
Kitty becomes increasingly aware of the tensions and prejudices
between Indians and whites, and of the past injustice and pain still
very much alive on the reservation.